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  1. Re:WHAT? on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    He said Mac, not iPad.

  2. Like 0.0.0.0?

  3. Re:For great justice! on How Adobe Got Rid of Traditional Stack-Ranking Performance Reviews · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In my opinion, the answer to Beta is to try to create an alternative /. with the existing or an older design and try to woo people there on virtue of being better. Which of course any site that manages to be Slashdot without the new shit, and with perhaps actual editorial work, can't help but be better. But will they come if you build it?

  4. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If they gave a flip about what we thought about the site, it would probably look the same as it did 10 years ago. If it ain't broke, etc.

  5. Re: Lincense wars in... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    There is always LGPL.

    If I have to choose a license, I usually use the University of Illinois license (a mashup of BSD and MIT type licenses), but occasionally I'll use LGPL 2.01, and if I have to I'll use GPL, but I'm not really a fan of the GPL. BSD-type licenses are more to my personal philosophy, though I do admit that LGPL is the most practically beneficial to me.

  6. Re:CLAMP! on An OS You'll Love? AI Experts Weigh In On Her · · Score: 1

    I think Chyi was the only one who had a reset button down there.

  7. CLAMP! on An OS You'll Love? AI Experts Weigh In On Her · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Give it an android body and you got the PCs from Chobits.

  8. Re:This nonsense only works in corporations on You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future · · Score: 2

    And when every brand does it, then what?

    Competition is for companies trying to screw each other over, collusion is for companies who consider the consumer a common enemy.

  9. Re:Good! on X.Org Server 1.15 Brings DRI3, Lacks XWayland Support · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself, Gunga Din - I run MATE on a netbook and it's just fine.

  10. Re:Copyright on Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, it is copyright infringement...and I can imagine they're gonna get creamed hard for it, given that there's a lot of stuff from big companies among the MAME romsets.

    OTOH, I'm of a mind that copyright is just too damn long, so when it comes to stuff of the age of most of the classic arcade games, I just don't give.

  11. Re:Why nVidia only? on Valve Releases Debian-Based SteamOS Beta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't it specifically designed for a specific system that specifies a specific model of nVidia graphics controller?

  12. Top kek on StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa · · Score: 1

    This needs the giant foot icon.

  13. Re:Something has to give, buddy on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 1

    How bad would putting a mesh around the area where the turbines spin impact their input?

  14. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The funny thing is anti-vax started out on the hippie left, and spread to the religiot right.

  15. Re:Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    And socialist, at that... Naziism was hardly socialist, name notwithstanding.

  16. Re:BSOD as a replacement feature? on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 1

    I've only ever bluescreened any NT Windows on metal once in my life. A couple days ago. Prolly a dying usb port.

  17. Re:Sold Out on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    I used Ubuntu for one version - 05/10, I think it was - then went back with Debian, the previous Linux distro I had used.

  18. Re: Spare me! on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree on that. Admittedly I'm an "old earth creationist" who believes that there was a "re-creation" or repopulation after a cataclysmic event, but I accept that from the point that life started here, it has not been stagnant, and has been changing and mutating in ways one might call evolution.

  19. Re:Slow on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    There's ups and downs for both approaches. I admit that.

    I like to use older or less powerful systems. I got a rather weaksauce Linux netbook I take around with me when I leave the house for long periods of time. I still run an IBM 5160. So naturally, I'm biased toward the optimize-for-speed approach.

  20. Re:Slow on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    When writing emulators I'm willing to sacrifice a little accuracy for a major speed boost. I had an Apple //e emulator that ran nicely on a 486/66, where the hardware emulation was handled entirely in C.

    I'd like to see something like MAME written around the idea of optimizing for efficiency (speed and size) rather than accuracy.

  21. Re:So stop using corks on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 2

    Two Buck Chuck, the cheap wine from Aldi Nord-owned Trader Joe's that won a taste test and made French wine connoisseurs' heads explode.

  22. Re:Slashdot Canidate on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 1

    More or less my perspective. Though I don't think an anarchic market is necessarily "free" - as much as I think that certain restrictions are necessary in a society to maintain the overall freedom (like, you can't just go around killing people ... you can't just go around preying on other businesses) I tend to overall support a "live and let live" philosophy.

    I tend to consider the term "libertarian" poisoned by the faux-libertarian randroids, so I don't call myself such a thing.

  23. Re:can it build the linux kernel? on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 1

    You'd want another libc too, like MUSL.

  24. Re:even old/cheap tvs are great on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Most people I've seen around here STILL use CRTs.

  25. Re:Lesson not learned on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 2

    Indeed: with private dedicated servers and VPSes getting cheaper and cheaper, there's less and less of an excuse to rely on public servers.

    -uso.